An effective message for a campaign or organizing effort should be credible, concise, relevant, and compelling. It answers the question of "why" by explaining why the issue matters and why people should care. The message is a conversation, not just a slogan or list of demands. It must be credible based on trustworthy content and messenger. It should also be compelling to the audience by connecting on a personal level. Finally, an effective message is concise and clear without jargon, and contrasts the choices to offer a decision between the campaign and its opposition.
Here is a brief overview of the education, experience, and skills that Andrew Mullin brings to organizations seeking to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and operate more effectively. Please contact andrewpasq@gmail.com for more information.
Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement BuildingAmy Sample Ward
This keynote was delivered at the MyCharityConnects Conference as part of Net Change 2011, on June 6, 2011, by Amy Sample Ward. For more information, visit http://amysampleward.org
Kay is a veteran volunteer, development officer, and consultant whose books, presentations,
and consulting have changed the vocabulary of the development profession and inspired countless individuals and organizations to perform at the highest levels. In her keynote, she will share what she has learned, what we can learn from what she has learned, and what she sees for the future of our profession.
Here is a brief overview of the education, experience, and skills that Andrew Mullin brings to organizations seeking to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and operate more effectively. Please contact andrewpasq@gmail.com for more information.
Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement BuildingAmy Sample Ward
This keynote was delivered at the MyCharityConnects Conference as part of Net Change 2011, on June 6, 2011, by Amy Sample Ward. For more information, visit http://amysampleward.org
Kay is a veteran volunteer, development officer, and consultant whose books, presentations,
and consulting have changed the vocabulary of the development profession and inspired countless individuals and organizations to perform at the highest levels. In her keynote, she will share what she has learned, what we can learn from what she has learned, and what she sees for the future of our profession.
From raising over $10 million from over 50,000 people, to backing reform candidates in eight races, we've come a long way since May 1, 2014.
This report attempts to document exactly how far.
15Module 5 Struggle Cash FlowCOLLAPSEAs a Credit A.docxdrennanmicah
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As a Credit Analyst for a community bank it is my responsibility to look at a company's "cash flow" and determine their ability to repay debt. The debt they are asking for is an investment to (hopefully) improve the overall strength and production of the company. However for every twenty-five good company's and businesses, there is one that limps along and struggles with cash flow and ultimately to repay their debts, let alone there shareholders, or themselves. If I was the financial manager of the company described above, I would have to find a way to "limp" my company through two painful and risky years.
With money inevitably gone in a six month period, and production of an earth-shattering product not being available for two years, the first and most important thing I would do is raise more capital. Of course the capital being raised would be hard earned capital because many people don't want to tie up their money for two years with no immediate returns, and the only chance of a return at all comes from a "break-through" product. That being said I would have High risk high reward share of stocks to be sold to raise more capital. The NPV of the project will require a higher return due to a higher discount rate the project will have since it needs funding now but won’t see cash flow from the funding for at least two years. This means stock that is going to be sold will cost the company more upfront to entice investors in a hurry up and wait game for two years. The payoff will be worth it after two years, but that’s two years there cash is tied up treading water for a substandard company.
I would present the following to the stakeholders and everyone with an interest in the company:
Funds are needed to keep production going for two years. While no return will be guaranteed for at least two years. The return after that period will be enough to make the investment a positive one. I would offer more shares at a lower cost (if possible) to ensure investors that any return on their investment will be big.
Budgeting would be first and most important thing I would do. I would cut every cost I reasonably could without putting the new product in jeopardy. I would stretch any and all money as thin as possible to ensure it was being maximized towards the production of the new product.
I would put together a forecast and budget for the next two years and show them exactly where and to what their money is going towards. At the end of that two year period, I would show them ROI numbers and how they will slowly climb to positive amounts and ultimately payback all of their investments with interest.
In the end, I would convince investors and shareholders that their money was being used wisely with forecasts and projections, they will see their returns in the future years that after a certain amount of time, will be higher than the current discount rate. A strict two years of budgeting and cutting costs wou.
Message Development: The Secrets of Creating a Sticky MessageKathy McShea
This popular presentation reviews the fundamentals to developing a message that sticks. We advocate use of the message box and provide plenty of real-world examples so you can see how it works.
Learn how to create a strong, appropriate, and memorable voice for your organization. Developing a strong brand voice is an essential first step to developing a social media strategy.
How Corporate Lobbyists Conquered American DemocracyBusiness didPazSilviapm
How Corporate Lobbyists Conquered American Democracy
Business didn't always have so much power in Washington.
LEE DRUTMAN
APR 20, 2015
JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS
Something is out of balance in Washington. Corporations now spend about $2.6 billion a year on reported lobbying expenditures—more than the $2 billion we spend to fund the House ($1.18 billion) and Senate ($860 million). It’s a gap that has been widening since corporate lobbying began to regularly exceed the combined House-Senate budget in the early 2000s.
Today, the biggest companies have upwards of 100 lobbyists representing them, allowing them to be everywhere, all the time. For every dollar spent on lobbying by labor unions and public-interest groups together, large corporations and their associations now spend $34. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 consistently represent business.
One has to go back to the Gilded Age to find business in such a dominant political position in American politics. While it is true that even in the more pluralist 1950s and 1960s, political representation tilted towards the well-off, lobbying was almost balanced by today's standards. Labor unions were much more important, and the public-interest groups of the 1960s were much more significant actors. And very few companies had their own Washington lobbyists prior to the 1970s. To the extent that businesses did lobby in the 1950s and 1960s (typically through associations), they were clumsy and ineffective. “When we look at the typical lobby,” concluded three leading political scientists in their 1963 study, American Business and Public Policy, “we find its opportunities to maneuver are sharply limited, its staff mediocre, and its typical problem not the influencing of Congressional votes but finding the clients and contributors to enable it to survive at all.”
Things are quite different today. The evolution of business lobbying from a sparse reactive force into a ubiquitous and increasingly proactive one is among the most important transformations in American politics over the last 40 years. Probing the history of this transformation reveals that there is no “normal” level of business lobbying in American democracy. Rather, business lobbying has built itself up over time, and the self-reinforcing quality of corporate lobbying has increasingly come to overwhelm every other potentially countervailing force. It has also fundamentally changed how corporations interact with government—rather than trying to keep government out of its business (as they did for a long time), companies are now increasingly bringing government in as a partner, looking to see what the country can do for them.
If we set our time machine back to 1971, we’d find a leading corporate lawyer earnestly writing that, “As every business executive knows, few elements of American society today have as little influence in government as the American businessman, the corporation, or even the millions of corporate stock ...
From raising over $10 million from over 50,000 people, to backing reform candidates in eight races, we've come a long way since May 1, 2014.
This report attempts to document exactly how far.
15Module 5 Struggle Cash FlowCOLLAPSEAs a Credit A.docxdrennanmicah
1
5
Module 5 Struggle Cash Flow
COLLAPSE
As a Credit Analyst for a community bank it is my responsibility to look at a company's "cash flow" and determine their ability to repay debt. The debt they are asking for is an investment to (hopefully) improve the overall strength and production of the company. However for every twenty-five good company's and businesses, there is one that limps along and struggles with cash flow and ultimately to repay their debts, let alone there shareholders, or themselves. If I was the financial manager of the company described above, I would have to find a way to "limp" my company through two painful and risky years.
With money inevitably gone in a six month period, and production of an earth-shattering product not being available for two years, the first and most important thing I would do is raise more capital. Of course the capital being raised would be hard earned capital because many people don't want to tie up their money for two years with no immediate returns, and the only chance of a return at all comes from a "break-through" product. That being said I would have High risk high reward share of stocks to be sold to raise more capital. The NPV of the project will require a higher return due to a higher discount rate the project will have since it needs funding now but won’t see cash flow from the funding for at least two years. This means stock that is going to be sold will cost the company more upfront to entice investors in a hurry up and wait game for two years. The payoff will be worth it after two years, but that’s two years there cash is tied up treading water for a substandard company.
I would present the following to the stakeholders and everyone with an interest in the company:
Funds are needed to keep production going for two years. While no return will be guaranteed for at least two years. The return after that period will be enough to make the investment a positive one. I would offer more shares at a lower cost (if possible) to ensure investors that any return on their investment will be big.
Budgeting would be first and most important thing I would do. I would cut every cost I reasonably could without putting the new product in jeopardy. I would stretch any and all money as thin as possible to ensure it was being maximized towards the production of the new product.
I would put together a forecast and budget for the next two years and show them exactly where and to what their money is going towards. At the end of that two year period, I would show them ROI numbers and how they will slowly climb to positive amounts and ultimately payback all of their investments with interest.
In the end, I would convince investors and shareholders that their money was being used wisely with forecasts and projections, they will see their returns in the future years that after a certain amount of time, will be higher than the current discount rate. A strict two years of budgeting and cutting costs wou.
Message Development: The Secrets of Creating a Sticky MessageKathy McShea
This popular presentation reviews the fundamentals to developing a message that sticks. We advocate use of the message box and provide plenty of real-world examples so you can see how it works.
Learn how to create a strong, appropriate, and memorable voice for your organization. Developing a strong brand voice is an essential first step to developing a social media strategy.
How Corporate Lobbyists Conquered American DemocracyBusiness didPazSilviapm
How Corporate Lobbyists Conquered American Democracy
Business didn't always have so much power in Washington.
LEE DRUTMAN
APR 20, 2015
JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS
Something is out of balance in Washington. Corporations now spend about $2.6 billion a year on reported lobbying expenditures—more than the $2 billion we spend to fund the House ($1.18 billion) and Senate ($860 million). It’s a gap that has been widening since corporate lobbying began to regularly exceed the combined House-Senate budget in the early 2000s.
Today, the biggest companies have upwards of 100 lobbyists representing them, allowing them to be everywhere, all the time. For every dollar spent on lobbying by labor unions and public-interest groups together, large corporations and their associations now spend $34. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 consistently represent business.
One has to go back to the Gilded Age to find business in such a dominant political position in American politics. While it is true that even in the more pluralist 1950s and 1960s, political representation tilted towards the well-off, lobbying was almost balanced by today's standards. Labor unions were much more important, and the public-interest groups of the 1960s were much more significant actors. And very few companies had their own Washington lobbyists prior to the 1970s. To the extent that businesses did lobby in the 1950s and 1960s (typically through associations), they were clumsy and ineffective. “When we look at the typical lobby,” concluded three leading political scientists in their 1963 study, American Business and Public Policy, “we find its opportunities to maneuver are sharply limited, its staff mediocre, and its typical problem not the influencing of Congressional votes but finding the clients and contributors to enable it to survive at all.”
Things are quite different today. The evolution of business lobbying from a sparse reactive force into a ubiquitous and increasingly proactive one is among the most important transformations in American politics over the last 40 years. Probing the history of this transformation reveals that there is no “normal” level of business lobbying in American democracy. Rather, business lobbying has built itself up over time, and the self-reinforcing quality of corporate lobbying has increasingly come to overwhelm every other potentially countervailing force. It has also fundamentally changed how corporations interact with government—rather than trying to keep government out of its business (as they did for a long time), companies are now increasingly bringing government in as a partner, looking to see what the country can do for them.
If we set our time machine back to 1971, we’d find a leading corporate lawyer earnestly writing that, “As every business executive knows, few elements of American society today have as little influence in government as the American businessman, the corporation, or even the millions of corporate stock ...
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Welcome to the new Mizzima Weekly !
Mizzima Media Group is pleased to announce the relaunch of Mizzima Weekly. Mizzima is dedicated to helping our readers and viewers keep up to date on the latest developments in Myanmar and related to Myanmar by offering analysis and insight into the subjects that matter. Our websites and our social media channels provide readers and viewers with up-to-the-minute and up-to-date news, which we don’t necessarily need to replicate in our Mizzima Weekly magazine. But where we see a gap is in providing more analysis, insight and in-depth coverage of Myanmar, that is of particular interest to a range of readers.
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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ys jagan mohan reddy political career, Biography.pdfVoterMood
Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy, often referred to as Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, is an Indian politician who currently serves as the Chief Minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh. He was born on December 21, 1972, in Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh, to Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (popularly known as YSR), a former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, and Y.S. Vijayamma.
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In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
12. “ I don’t represent the big oil companies, I don’t represent the big pharmaceutical companies, I don’t represent the Enron's of this world, but you know what, they already have great representation in Washington. It’s the rest of the people that need it.” -- Paul Wellstone 2002 Campaign Speech
13. Example: Sean Duffy (R) – 2010 WI 7 th Compelling Messages are Personal Bringing the Ax to DC Get America Rolling Again
18. Message is Values Based “Too many progressives make the mistake of believing people are galvanized around ten-point programs. They are not! People respond according to their sense of right and wrong. They respond to a leadership of values.” -- US Senator Paul Wellstone
19. Message Box What we are saying about ourselves What we are saying about them What they are saying about us What they are saying about themselves
20. Example 2010: Democrats v Republicans Dem on Dem Democrat Positive Msg Dem on Rep Democrat Negative Msg Rep on Rep Republican Positive Msg Rep on Dem Dem Negative Msg
21. Example: 2010 Democrats v. Republican 2010 We’ ve made real progress given the worst financial crisis in decades (and it would have been worst if Republicans were in charge). Two years ago they drove the car off the cliff – don ’t give the steering wheel back to them. And by the way they are social extremists and will kill social security. We can do it better and focus on what works for you = jobs, jobs, jobs (+ lower taxes and less intrusive government). They promised hope and change – how is it working for you? Obama = failed promise - failed change – failed big government and no jobs.
22. Successful grassroots campaign message: People feel that the campaign reflects their interests and values , and they take action based on that belief! Summary
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Humorous spoof on trying to remake BP and plastics into “green” companies that are concerned about the environment. Creating an effective message is not simply developing a clever public relations stunt that creates a fancy logo and uses poll tested words and “poof” miraculously everyone thinks differently. There is a mistake, oftentimes, where people think that if you simply say something enough times everyone will believe it – but there are millions of dollars that have been wasted in that attempt. If the product, or candidate and campaign, are not genuine and authentic or values based or care about people – simply “saying it is so” does not in fact make it so.
Which of these two conversations would you rather be in? How often do politicians talk to us like the first conversation? How often do we talk to voters like the first conversation? What is a message? It ’s a conversation with voters. The qualities of a good conversation are the same qualities of a good message -- something that’s engaging, thought-provoking, and moves you to action. What makes for an effective conversation? Brainstorm answers.
Remember it is not your message – it is your audience ’s message. If they do not understand, or connect, it doesn't’t really matter what you think or want. We are always better off understanding where our audience is coming from, and how they might respond. It is always about them, and what they need.
Before you start trying to come up with what you ’re trying to say, first you need to define who you are trying to say it to. Who, specifically, is your audience? You can have more than one -- external vs. internal messages
What makes a message compelling? E.g. story – values – matters to people – voters can see themselves in it.
Paul used a variation of this message for all of his campaigns – the bad guys would change depending on who was particularly out of favor during the election cycle. Paul also used to say: “I don’t represent the Rockefellers. I represent the little fillers.”
District is Northwest Wisconsin, held by a long term Democratic Congressman – Dave Obey - who had been labeled “out-of-touch” with his District (his housemate, 34 year incumbent Jim Oberstar ended up losing in the district next door in MN). Duffy was a Tea Party candidate, but successfully portrayed himself as a long-rolling, outdoors liking, regular guy. Sean P. Duffy (born October 3, 1971) is an American politician and former sports commentator and reality television personality. He first entered public life as a cast member on The Real World: Boston and 2002's Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, before going on to serve as district attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin[2] and the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 7th congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party. He started log rolling at age 5 and speed climbing (sprinting up 60 and 90 foot poles) at 13. He holds two speed-climbing titles. [5] As a teen, Duffy competed in the National Lumberjack Championships and is a three-time world champion in the 90-foot speed climb and has several other titles. He still competes in local and national competitions.
Two ads. The first is a devastatingly effective ad run by Jerry Brown in the US California Governor ’s race in 2010. He was running against Meg Whitman, who was the founder of E-Bay and had spent $170 million of her own money to defeat Brown. Brown was the former governor from the 1970s, who had gone on to run for President (unsuccessfully in 1992) and then was Mayor of Oakland and most recently Attorney General and is now elected Governor again. Whitman ’s strong suit was her business experience (California is suffering massive budget deficits and service cuts) and her outsider status in an election year that was all about not being an insider, and being a fiscal conservative. This ad makes the devastating comparison between Meg Whitman and Arnold Schwarzenegger (who was the current Governor and is exceedingly unpopular) – and in effect defines Whitman as a continuation of the current failures rather than change – and Brown, the consummate politician, became ironically the change agent. Joe Sestak in his underdog bid to defeat Arlen Specter in the PA Democratic Primary in 2010. This is a devastating use of a quote to define Specter who was always a maverick Republican (who was widely supported by Democrats in his previous runs) as a Bush-Palin Republican and rank opportunist. It happens to be more effective because it is true. Sestak started going up in the polls after this ad played and he ended up pulling off a huge upset only to be narrowly defeated by the Republican Toomey in the General election.
Ask people to brainstorm the two messages – jot answers on flip charts Pull together a sample of the two messages and ask – who were the different audiences? Which do you think was more effective – why? What is missing?
This is what is meant by a conversation. In a good conversation, the head goes nodding up and down in agreement with what is being said.